It’s been a long wait, hasn’t it? And now its here, four years on from his last album for VP Music Is Life, and some have murmered to the effect that A Moment In Time might not match its predeccessors. The hit single I Feel Good is classic Beres fare, a hooky slice of quality pop dancehall in the same way They Gonna Talk and Pull It Up were back in his nineties heyday. The popular Penthouse hit Give It All You’ve Got and his piece on the Drop It riddim; I Surrender, are roped in, but what of the remainder? On a first listen the standouts are revealed in the excellent Friends?, the beautifully sung I’ll Live Again, the bitter sweet Talking Africa and Dark Clouds, another of those classical Beres tunes addressing adult relationships on an impossibly infectious riddim. Is Beres Hammond still the finest reggae singer extant? You’ll just have to check the rest out and form your own opinion. The bonus DVD contains Beres’ performance at the Jamaican Sumfest last year, the music video to I Feel Good and an interview with the man himself.
Track Listing:
1. I Feel Good
2. No Goodbye
3. Picking Up The Pieces
4. Still Will Be Heaven
5. Can’t Say I Never Tried
6. Friends?
7. Give It All You Got
8. I’ll live Agaian
9. Talking Africa
10. Dark Clouds
11. I Surrender
12. A Place For You
13. Bring It On
14. Body & Soul
15. Cry No More
16. A Moment In Time